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“lynn connor”

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  • Doing Relationship-Based Social Work

    A Practical Guide to Building Relationships and Enabling Change

    by John Mclaughlin, James Marshall, Julia Alexander, Mary Henihan, James Todd, Stephen Clarke, Uel McIlveen, Geraldine Campbell, Maria Somerville, Brenda Horgan, Lynn Connor, Adrian McKinney, Paul Harvey, Denise MacDermott, Susannah McCall, Siobhan Wylie ...
    Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical experience, which describes how to carry out effective relationship-based social work.Doing Relationship-Based Social Work provides a refreshing and realistic approach to social work practice. The model itself is built around four stages: engagement, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The New Health Care System: Everything You Need to Know

    by David Nather ...
    A primer in plain English that explains how health insurance will work under the new legislation and how it will affect your care and your choices going forward.Now that "Obamacare" (as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is popularly known) has become the law of the land, millions of Americans will need help figuring out exactly how the new system will work and how it might affect ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

    by Geoffrey Rose ...
    The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Arresting Hope

    Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out

    Edited by Ruth Elwood Martin, Mo Korchinski ...
    Series series hope
    Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection, and community. Arresting Hope does not present a romantic or nostalgic version of the story of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Happiness Around the World

    The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires

    by Carol Graham ...
    For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Dilemma of American Social Welfare

    by William Epstein ...
    In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare expert that does not offer easy placebos or simplistic claims based on more money.The Dilemma of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Improving Access to Further and Higher Education for Young People in Public Care

    European Policy and Practice

    by Claire Cameron, Sonia Jackson, Andrea Racz, Hanan Hauari, Helen Johansson, Inge Bryderup, Ferran Casas, Marta Korintus, Ingrid Höjer, Carme Montserrat ...
    Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance.Drawing extensively on a substantial three-year long European Union funded research project led by the authors, this book examines ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • The Strength of Culture for Development

    Why Culture Matters in International Cooperation

    Edited by Pascaline Gaborit ...
    Series Book 10 - Europe des cultures / Europe of cultures
    On the global scale, the challenges surrounding development are massive and complex, as inequalities in living conditions between the richest and poorest countries become greater. Development is a global challenge on a par with the financial crisis and environmental concerns. The participation of local communities and towns in development programmes may result from a desire for influence at an ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Dependency Agenda

    by Kevin D. Williamson ...
    Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to fight poverty” in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs.In this eye-opening ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Pandora's Dilemma

    Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century

    by David Stoesz ...
    What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child welfare, online education, the devolution of the welfare state, and its sequel, the investment state, illuminate critical factors determining the future of social welfare as well as the professions. Beyond explaining social change, theories include ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Long-Term Care in Europe

    Improving Policy and Practice

    Edited by K. Leichsenring, J. Billings, H. Nies ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on research across a wide range of European countries, this book analyzes the key issues at stake in developing long-term care systems for older people in Europe with a focus on progression and improvement for policy and practice. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Out of Harm's Way

    Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

    by Richard Gelles ...
    Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD